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1630Boston
1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The first time I jumped from a perfectly good plane I was 18 years old

**What was the very first coin that you paid money for, pics if you still have them. :) **
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  • divecchia
    divecchia Posts: 6,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My first coin that I paid money for was a 1908 St Gaudens No Motto raw. I paid $600 for it around 1987. I wish I had a photo of it and all my other gold coins in first generation holders that I collected over 30 years ago, but do not. :'(

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  • DrBuster
    DrBuster Posts: 5,446 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    6 perfectly good planes made me leave them at 12000....to which....I couldn't tell you the first coin purchase I made.

    The white knuckle when the door opens up there, the drop out, the ground rush, the brain change......wouldn't trade it for the world.

  • bearcave
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    @1630Boston said:
    The first time I jumped from a perfectly good plane I was 18 years old

    **What was the very first coin that you paid money for, pics if you still have them. :) **
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    You have to be nuts to jump out of a perfectly good plane!! 😀

    Ken
  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's great Donato @divecchia

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @DrBuster said:

    the brain change......wouldn't trade it for the world.

    You've been there and get it :)

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @DrBuster said:

    6 perfectly good planes made me leave them at 12000....to which..

    The white knuckle when the door opens up there,

    White knuckles go away....but the experience does last a lifetime.

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  • 1630Boston
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    @bearcave said:

    You have to be nuts to jump out of a perfectly good plane!! 😀

    It depends upon where you are going...............or what you are doing.....or what situation you happen to be in :)

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  • coinsarefun
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    My first expensive purchase was in 2007 from eBay and it was raw, graded MS63
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  • DrBuster
    DrBuster Posts: 5,446 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The knuckles was the first time that door opened and only then, in a cesna, and I had no clue I was hanging onto the rail as hard as I was...the serenity of the day owned it every time after.

    Did you just jump??? @1630Boston

  • amwldcoin
    amwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    While I don't have any pictures...a few early Lincoln cents I bought at a Woolworths in 1967? One was an 18-S.

  • 1630Boston
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    @DrBuster said:
    The knuckles was the first time that door opened and only then, in a cesna, and I had no clue I was hanging onto the rail as hard as I was...the serenity of the day owned it every time after.

    Did you just jump??? @1630Boston

    yes :D

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @coinsarefun said:
    My first expensive purchase was in 2007 from eBay and it was raw, graded MS63
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    That looks fantastic :)

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @DrBuster said:
    The knuckles was the first time that door opened and only then, in a cesna, and I had no clue I was hanging onto the rail as hard as I was...the serenity of the day owned it every time after.

    Did you just jump??? @1630Boston

    Sorry @DrBuster , no my first jump was about 40 years ago

    https://youtu.be/NmdojI8Znr4

    not me of course. in the above video............but it is a little 'white knuckle' when someone else "packs" your chute. :D

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    And a coin to keep the thread alive............thanks @PCGS_SocialMedia fo this site

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  • ricko
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    I have not yet jumped out of a perfectly good plane.....I have considered it...just never did it. And I have no idea what my first coin purchase was....so many years ago....so many coins....I like them all though. ;) Cheers, RickO

  • BryceM
    BryceM Posts: 11,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    More or less this is the first coin I paid money to acquire. It was my first mint purchase. There haven't been many since.

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  • bearcave
    bearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I don't have any pictures left of my coins from before. I had some good purchase raw before and was getting them graded as I could afford it. I wish I had took pictures and kept them. Had some good toners as well. Here is one that I bought lately:

    Ken
  • CoinHoarder
    CoinHoarder Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My first coin purchase:

    In the late 1960s, I bought a 1940s era Walking Liberty Half Dollar (don't remember the exact year) for .60 cents. It was purchased at a coin stand at Universal Mall in Warren, MI.

    Up to that point, the thought of spending money on a coin made no sense to me. I collected all my coins from circulation.

    I still have the Walker somewhere in my collection, but there is no way that I could identify it.

  • Outhaul
    Outhaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    First coin I paid money for was a $20 Saint for $55 in 1964. The second was for an AU 1955/55 the same year for $50.

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